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The secret to secondlife is that its financial state is propped up entirely by suspiciously wealthy furries, it will always succeed if we have more furry avatars than vrchat.

Actually the opposite, pascal was definitely an outlier of a generation. But it’s hardware performance tier being similar to the rtx 3060 while being nearly the same wattage is somewhat normal. The 1080 is a 180 watt card, the 3060 is 170 watts. What isn’t, is that it’s product placement tier equivalent, the 3080 , is 320 watts, as is the 4080. Even my partners card, the Titan X pascal, the top end of that generation, is only 250 watts. Meanwhile the 4090 is 450 watts. And further is that those numbers for peak wattage don’t include transient spikes, where the cards can very briefly tap over 600 watts, both 3000 and 4000 series do that as well. Where cards like the 3090ti could run close to 500 watts under load and spike to 650 momentarily, which would actually kill some power supplies. GPUs have gotten way more power hungry, it’s a shame.

mmmm crunchy jpeg side note, the music being listened to here was the entire of Aquarium by Aqua, start to finish, at her request

This is absolutely a dig as a pc nerd, did you really get a tt tower 900 for a conventional, air cooled build with a single GPU? This is like buying a humvee to pick up groceries. One of the most specifically designed cases for elaborate water cooled hardware showcase builds ever made and there’s like, a 2070 and unsleeved cables in there. Bruh

It’s an 11900k, 64gb of ram and 16gb a770 at its core. Overall cost to build was around $1400? Nothing crazy Though this things primary purpose isnt sl, sl runs on anything. My partners PC I assembled for them as an upgrade is an i5 11400F with 32gb of ram and a GTX titan X pascal. And they still play in 1600x1200 so it doesn’t matter, at all. But I have a lot of hardware in general, it’s a hobby, there’s like 30 video cards on shelves in my living room. SL will comfortably play on some very low end hardware. I play this game at max settings in 4k all the time, but most people I imagine are like my partner and will put the game into toaster mode visually in 1080p or lower resolutions just because they don’t care if the shadows look pretty, or are even there. And with that performance target in mind, you could get SL playing well on your average cheap used business laptop from a few years ago, entry level desktop hardware, sub $500 used PC builds, etc.

“Lenovo ideapad” yeah, rice paper and glue see my lenovo is an x1 nano, it’s made of carbon fiber, I can pick it up however I want without running the risk of breaking it, because it’s not made of rice paper and glue I get the statement being made, but it’s more just like, don’t buy ewaste products from the start, you don’t need to treat your hardware like it’s super fragile if you buy stuff made to last, and low tier consumer laptops are not made to last

I don’t have this problem because my laptop isn’t made of rice paper and glue.

A lot of early 90’s house music from one particular DJ at one particular furry dance club. Details will not be specified. But it was super cool because this is all stuff I was just kinda aware that existed, but they started showing specific tracks and talking about the history of early house. I already had some experience with stuff of that era like Razormaid mixes which was all late 80’s and early 90’s house music, but learning about what else was going on at the time which was a lot more obscure was neat

THIS GAME RUNS ON ANYTHING

ARM translation isn’t amazing but it’s way better than it used to be. Blender has native arm support if youre using blender, and in general works well on Macs and specially on the ARM Macs. SL is a mixed bag, it’ll run, OpenGL is still supported on M1/2/3, it’s just not optimized. So you may come across general performance issues related to running the application through Rosetta to begin with, but also with an already unoptimized openGL game running on hardware that only has openGL support as a fallback. If you need a laptop on the performance equivalent end of a MacBook, but need secondlife to work well, there are a lot of other options. Unless needing MacOS is a requirement outright, I’d look at different machines than ARM MacBooks when SL is a primary use case.

I still don’t understand the names thing, just use whatever and a nickname like anyone sane?

This is in the same vein as people who get upset when they get muted because “freedom of speech”, as if it applies to a privately run game on the internet. This goes without saying that the Geneva convention does not apply to a virtual chat room from 2003.

Just up your own scale of spending if you want things to be comparable. Though for most people, keeping this comparable to irl is not the point of the virtual currency. For a lot of people it’s not a translation of real world value, it’s just a game currency that happens to have real world value. I don’t look at a piece of virtual clothing like it’s worth $0.59 USD or something. The virtual currency operates on its own market and scale. A little plot of land costs under 20k l$ which is under $100 usd. I’d rather that than “oh this prime real estate costs the equivalent of $180,000 USD, or 43 million linden dollars”. And then it’s all also a matter of personal scale. I’m one to tip 5 grand or dump money into giveaway orbs at clubs because for the few rare times I even go to places like that, $20 is a cheap expenditure for a virtual night out. Pizza Hut costs like $50 all in these days, so I consider linden dollar four figure sums to be cheap entertainment all things considered.

Instead of trying to bring the games tech and culture to a modern era, invent time travel and throw the entire world back to 2008 so it just fits in better. Building with prims should be encouraged far more, and should work with incremental steps with a basic toolbox like Roblox. Sacrifice photo realistic detail for accessibility. There should be linden operate spaces which are just designed to be smaller chatrooms. Nowhere to go, just a conversation pit for 5-15 people. These should be found by random selection or by group traveling, and should be situated around info hubs across the world. Like the idea of a social island but compacted and on the mainland. A built in camera feature for a cut away top down or isometric view would be neat. Think of the sims. A linden run HOA of sorts that just maintains a cohesive aesthetic to the world around infohubs. If you want to make your home an eyesore, do it away from the primary locations in world. There’s a difference between an eccentric style and large blocking walls, ban lines, or intentionally disruptive terrain. Item tags, so items can be automatically classified in your inventory to where they’re supposed to go. With a 2 layer sub folder system, ie Clothes > Shirts, no further. Obviously users could go further but just having that automated would make the inventory much less of a pain to use. How many of my ideas are real, how many of them are jokes, some may never know.

“Right click > add” And then if they want, talk with them instead of being a nuisance trying to DIY being a guide. Anyone actually interested in this game will figure it out.

Looks solid, proper SI doing normal builds with normal parts. You’re going to need a better cooler with that 13700k. Intel doesn’t ship it with a stock cooler because the stock cooler that comes with the lower wattage chips isn’t adequate. If they offer it, any 120mm tower or basic water cooler will do. This is down to your own personal financial situation but do be cautious of rent to own programs. Go for credit if you have to or if your budget simply doesn’t allow for something like this, you might have to diy to save money. Rent to own PCs are a known questionable business. PCs depreciate in value like cars do, as is the nature of a market where new things come out every year. And rent to own programs will try to lock you into long term rental agreements where you end up paying 2-3x the price of the pc new, years down the line, when eventually just a payment made on the pc is worth more than the pc is.

A virtual proxy to an eBay store, where you buy items in L$ as a currency conversion rate equivalent to the real items listing price. When you buy it you have to send the seller a notecard with your address irl in order to have the real item shipped to you. I guess you could do that with any real storefront, have a SL virtual store mirror it where you buy items in L$.

“Generation alpha” will never touch games like SL with a 10 foot pole.

I like to bring my partner here and annoy the hell out of her by exclusively talking in cymraeg the entire time so she has to translate everything I say pa un ohonom yw r un rhyfedd allan yn awr, collwr

I’ll have to get one of the higher end Radeon cards to play around with some. I think the only two I have which are higher performers than the 580 or 5500xt are the Vega 56, 6600 xt and r9 nano and I love the r9 nano and all But it’s a 4gb card which wouldn’t be a fair comparison against all the 8gb cards, should probably scour eBay for something like a 6800 or 7700 and add them to the reference pool

The 5500xt is a card which is heavily affected by its vram and the bus speed it’s on. The 4gb one on pcie 3.0 will perform much worse under load than the 8gb one would, or either on pcie 4.0

I mean, I think I posted about this before, that’s not too crazy of an idea, and other games, notably other social worlds have done that habbo introduced them in 2012 for users to buy, though they had been ingame since the release of the game smallworlds had programmable NPCs in like 2010, They can get pretty advanced using ingame tools, smallworlds was pretty complex out of the box and could do a lot if you spent the time to program them. But with habbos bots they can get very complex in capability but not chatting, they can be integrated with “wired” items, which as a side note is kinda like physical scripting with blocks, dependent on stack order and tile placement: it’s not out of the question at all for AI integrated bots to become actual products in SL, that’s something people would totally use

As a person who was and no longer is a fat guy, absolutely yes and it should be encouraged more. Someone else’s unhealthy coping mechanism should never be encouraged and should be discouraged as much as possible. “Oh you’re still beautiful even if you’re overweight”, no you’re not, you’re a visual indicator of your life falling apart and instead of reaching out to help, people just look at you and tell you it’s no big deal to fall apart anyway. I have an unending resentment for a substantial amount of my family for this. I have a 7 year old cousin who weighs 160lbs, that’s just child abuse. And his parents aren’t much better, I’m probably going to watch one or both of them die of some weight related complication with their health within the next decade. And nobody batts an eye because it’s rude, shouldn’t body shame them. I share sympathy to people who are struggling with their body and want to improve. But I absolutely loathe the people who try to normalize it and convince others it’s ok to live miserably and die slowly.

Proprietary motherboard, its an HP pavillion with a different shell and name. Same proprietary power supply, cooler is mounted directly to the chassis which isnt ideal since changing the cooler means modifying the chassis itself. Wouldnt recommend it if you ever wanted to do any upgrades. A better GPU down the line would require a different power supply, and since the power supply is non standard, it means youd have almost no options or would have to buy adapters to get a different power supply to work with it. Anything with a mechanical hard drive even secondary to an SSD is to be ignored as well. A 1tb HDD is like $30, its not a selling point when a 1tb SSD is $50. Same applies to the actual pavillion, proprietary. Also a few generations out of date if youre going to be buying new. Buy something standard, from a big name for components, not entire systems. Thermaltake doesnt really make PC's as a whole, they just sell prebuilts with their components in them: Amazon.com: Thermaltake LCGS Quartz i460 R4 Gaming Desktop (Intel Core™ i5-13400F, 3600Mhz 16GB RGB Memory, NVIDIA GeForce® RTX 4060, 1TB NVMe M.2) S2QT-B66R-460-LCS : Electronics 13400F is only one generation old, current asrock B660 motherboard which is a solid choice, 3600mhz DDR4 from thermaltake, decent ram. Its a thermaltake S200 case, decent power supply, decent cooler. MSI RTX 4060 in matching white. You could basically take this pc and its just like any other gaming pc that people DIY. Because theres no compromise of weird parts or brands. Something like that is what i would highly recommend for a normal gaming PC. Its a reputable brand with good components in a normal standard. For people outside of the PC community the whole standardization thing is not well known, but basically all motherboards and power supplies for off the shelf parts are compatible, going back over 25 years now. All of these boards primary difference is slot count, and some minor dimensional changes. But any ATX case can take all 3 types of board. Any power supply will work with them as they all have the same 24 pin power connector and 8 pin cpu power connector. They all use the same rear i/o spacing, they all use the same slot spacing. This means any system with any of those boards, you can swap the board for anything else of the same or smaller size. You can use any power supply. Any add-on card you put in the slots wether its the single slot of the mini itx board or slot 7 on the atx board, will fit. They will fit in any ATX case, even if your case is from 2001 or 2025. This is the board from the victus 15L (the AMD version, same layout as the intel one): It is not the atx standard. It will only work in that HP chassis, and wont fit in any other case. It doesnt have a 24 pin, it uses a proprietary power connector and will only work with a power supply made just for it. This is a non re-usable component, and since the case is proprietary to this motherboard it means you cant even swap out the board for a different platform later. I recommend AIB's like skytech: Amazon.com: Skytech Gaming They make normal PCs, in off the shelf components. Its the same build as you could DIY yourself for the most part. Any component can be changed if you wanted. There is no "only compatible with skytech" out there, its just normal pc standards.

I’d like to see the new user experience translated to a closed ecosystem like what a lot of other games do. The iconic tutorial island of runescape This teaches you just the core basics. Movement, camera control, key aspects to the game. The basic steps of doing some of the basic skills, and a little chat at the end about account management. And nothing more. This doesn’t show you how the grand exchange works. It doesn’t explain gear tiering, pvp, what higher level prayers and special attacks are, none of that. This shows you how to at best navigate the game. Everything else you learn on your own or via other smaller explanations as you come to certain areas. A new user may never know about pvp until they click on a wilderness gate and it gives them a warning they can be attacked there. And that’s worked, it’s worked extremely well. After tutorial island the game dumps you in lumbridge with 1) a very basic assortment of gear and tools 2) no skills beyond what little xp you earned on the island 3) no goals, quests or notifications youre just there, it’s up to you at that point to do anything, it directs you to nobody and nowhere And it sounds so sudden and rushed to throw just the core essentials at someone and then toss them into the game but it works, and has worked for 22 years. Jagex tried to change this several times and every time it was dumb and didn’t work, and they reverted back to tutorial island because it has the highest player retention. That is I think something sl needs to replicate, simplicity with the core essentials in a closed environment. Then dump the player into a crowd and let them figure it out. Explain basic movement and camera controls, avatar customization, chat and the friends system, content guidelines, searching and maybe some basic object manipulation like interacting with pay or touch items. And then no more, no detail, no history, no lore, no specifics, this should take 15 minutes tops. Dump them somewhere with a bunch of people and let them have at it. It’s been a while since I’ve done a new user experience in SL, I should make an alt and do that again to see what’s changed. But from what I’ve seen they’re still trying to get too much content into it.